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BMC Palliative Care, 2021 Background Understanding public attitudes towards death and dying is important to inform public policies around End of Life Care (EoLC). We studied the public attitudes towards death and dying in Wales.
Ishrat Islam +3 more
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Blogging to Let Go: Life Writing, Maternal Cancer and Death
On_Culture, 2021 Illness memoirs gained popularity in the last decades of the 20th century. From the early 21st century, illness narratives proliferate online.
Astrid Joutseno
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Palliative Care and Social Practice, 2023 Background: Significant structural and normative pressures privilege the ideal of dying at home in Canada. At the same time, the social complexities and meanings associated with dying in particular locations remain critically unexamined.
Laura Funk +6 more
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Neuropsychiatric Investigation, 2021 Objective: In this study, we aimed to determine whether the death anxiety of nurses has an influence on the attitudes toward caring for dying patients. Methods: The study was carried at the University Hospital.
Merve Şahin, Fatma Demirkıran
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Association of socioeconomic status with medical assistance in dying: a case–control analysis
BMJ Open, 2021 Objectives Economic constraints are a common explanation of why patients with low socioeconomic status tend to experience less access to medical care. We tested whether the decreased care extends to medical assistance in dying in a healthcare system with
Deva Thiruchelvam +3 more
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The “A Graceful Death Exhibition”: Portraits and Words from the End of Life
Social Sciences, 2015 This article discusses the lack of knowledge and awareness that hampers end of life experiences, for both the dying and those left behind. It draws on personal experiences, and explores working creatively with dying people, using observations, painting ...
Antonia Rolls
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PLoS ONE, 2023 Aim and objectivesThis study aimed to explore the levels of knowledge, attitudes, and practices toward palliative care (PC) among nurses working with patients diagnosed with cancer in Jordan.BackgroundPC is a growing specialty in healthcare and nursing ...
Walaa Mohammed Altarawneh +4 more
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Communicating prognostic uncertainty in potential end-of-life contexts: experiences of family members [PDF]
, 2016 Background: This article reports on the concept of “communicating prognostic uncertainty” which emerged from a mixed methods survey asking family members to rank their satisfaction in seven domains of hospital end-of-life care. Methods: Open-ended
Gallagher, Romayne, Krawczyk, Marian
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Tracés, 2020 Anguish: The Case History of a Dying Trajectory (1970) is an exemplification of the grounded theory approach already developed by the sociologists Anselm Strauss and Barney Glaser in Awareness of Dying (1965) and Time for Dying (1968).
Anthony Stavrianakis, Laurence Tessier
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Voices, 2010 Through my work as a hospice music therapist I’ve come to believe that people who are dying have an inner awareness of their own impending deaths. When I was a music therapy intern, I met a patient who was the first to reveal to me this inner awareness ...
Yumiko Sato
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